Microsoft Certification Contracts in England

Microsoft Certification
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Microsoft Certification qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 273 355 375
Rank change year-on-year +82 +20 -37
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Certification 315 313 489
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.86% 0.64% 0.69%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.77% 2.30% 3.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 206 238 323
10th Percentile £191 £152 £146
25th Percentile £313 £348 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £503 £425
Median % change year-on-year -0.50% +18.24% +1.19%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £538
90th Percentile £675 £700 £619
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £425
% change year-on-year -5.00% +17.65% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 21 40
10th Percentile £13.69 - £13.25
25th Percentile £14.16 £15.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £16.30 £15.50 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.16% - -8.82%
75th Percentile £21.37 £18.75 £21.05
90th Percentile £21.38 £20.00 £30.85
UK median hourly rate £16.30 £15.50 £15.50
% change year-on-year +5.16% - -26.56%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
England

Microsoft Certification is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 11,386 13,606 15,265
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.12% 27.70% 21.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,016 9,106 10,040
10th Percentile £313 £333 £319
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +6.06%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £714
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 978 725 676
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.00 £13.41
25th Percentile £18.00 £20.22 £18.75
Median hourly rate £40.00 £52.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% +40.00% -1.06%
75th Percentile £62.25 £68.56 £55.77
90th Percentile £77.50 £80.25 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £54.00 £42.00
% change year-on-year -25.93% +28.57% +12.00%

Microsoft Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Microsoft Certification as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Certification in England

Microsoft Certification
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Microsoft Certification in England.

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Certification in England

Microsoft Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Certification in England over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Certification in England

Microsoft Certification
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Microsoft Certification in England.

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft Certification in England

Microsoft Certification
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Microsoft Certification in England over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Microsoft Certification in England

Microsoft Certification
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft Certification within the England region over the 6 months to 7 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +107 108 £500 - 56
East of England +20 56 £135 -58.46% 19
South West +21 48 £545 +3.81% 46
North of England +20 38 £400 -23.81% 59
South East +5 37 £456 -17.05% 39
North West +19 28 £388 -29.55% 38
Midlands +21 21 £513 +129.02% 32
East Midlands +17 14 £406 +81.84% 10
West Midlands +16 7 £625 +177.78% 22
Yorkshire +22 5 £325 +116.67% 16
North East +17 5 £475 +331.82% 7
Microsoft Certification
UK

Microsoft Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 49 (15.56%) Microsoft Exchange
2 38 (12.06%) SharePoint
3 16 (5.08%) Confluence
4 2 (0.63%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.63%) IIS
5 1 (0.32%) Exchange Server 2007
5 1 (0.32%) Exchange Server 2010
5 1 (0.32%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 25 (7.94%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (6.03%) Microsoft Excel
3 15 (4.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.95%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.32%) Acrobat
5 1 (0.32%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 3 (0.95%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.63%) Eikon
3 1 (0.32%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 122 (38.73%) Microsoft 365
2 97 (30.79%) Azure
3 28 (8.89%) Dynamics 365
4 27 (8.57%) AWS
5 25 (7.94%) Entra ID
6 22 (6.98%) Power Platform
7 11 (3.49%) GCP
8 10 (3.17%) Azure DevOps
8 10 (3.17%) Power Automate
9 8 (2.54%) Cloud Computing
9 8 (2.54%) IaaS
9 8 (2.54%) OneDrive
10 6 (1.90%) Azure Data Factory
10 6 (1.90%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 6 (1.90%) PowerApps
10 6 (1.90%) WhatsApp
11 5 (1.59%) Azure Key Vault
11 5 (1.59%) Azure Sentinel
11 5 (1.59%) GitHub
12 4 (1.27%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 46 (14.60%) Wi-Fi
2 42 (13.33%) DNS
3 37 (11.75%) DHCP
4 21 (6.67%) Firewall
5 19 (6.03%) VPN
6 16 (5.08%) LAN
6 16 (5.08%) SAN
7 15 (4.76%) WAN
8 11 (3.49%) TCP/IP
9 10 (3.17%) NAS
10 9 (2.86%) VoIP
11 6 (1.90%) Fibre Channel
11 6 (1.90%) Network Security
12 5 (1.59%) iSCSI
12 5 (1.59%) VLAN
12 5 (1.59%) Wireless
13 4 (1.27%) SSL
14 3 (0.95%) CTI
14 3 (0.95%) Structured Cabling
14 3 (0.95%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (8.89%) SQL Server
2 10 (3.17%) Data Warehouse
2 10 (3.17%) Power BI
3 5 (1.59%) Big Data
3 5 (1.59%) MySQL
3 5 (1.59%) Relational Database
4 4 (1.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (0.95%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 3 (0.95%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (0.95%) Data Lake
5 3 (0.95%) Microsoft Analysis Services
5 3 (0.95%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (0.95%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 3 (0.95%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (0.63%) Delta Lake
6 2 (0.63%) Metadata
6 2 (0.63%) Spark SQL
7 1 (0.32%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.32%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.32%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 20 (6.35%) JIRA
2 6 (1.90%) Git
3 1 (0.32%) Appium
3 1 (0.32%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.32%) MSI
3 1 (0.32%) Selenium
3 1 (0.32%) SonarQube
3 1 (0.32%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.32%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.32%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 107 (33.97%) Social Skills
2 58 (18.41%) Finance
3 56 (17.78%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (12.06%) Public Sector
4 38 (12.06%) Retail
5 23 (7.30%) Banking
6 15 (4.76%) Military
7 12 (3.81%) Marketing
7 12 (3.81%) Telecoms
8 9 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
9 8 (2.54%) Police
10 7 (2.22%) Manufacturing
11 6 (1.90%) Documentation Skills
11 6 (1.90%) Front Office
12 4 (1.27%) Pharmaceutical
13 3 (0.95%) Advertising
13 3 (0.95%) Financial Institution
13 3 (0.95%) General Ledger
13 3 (0.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (0.95%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 58 (18.41%) Analyst
2 50 (15.87%) Service Analyst
3 49 (15.56%) Service Desk Analyst
4 31 (9.84%) Architect
4 31 (9.84%) Senior
5 28 (8.89%) Consultant
5 28 (8.89%) Support Engineer
6 22 (6.98%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 18 (5.71%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
8 17 (5.40%) Solutions Architect
9 16 (5.08%) Test Engineer
10 15 (4.76%) 1st Line Service Desk Analyst
10 15 (4.76%) Integration Engineer
10 15 (4.76%) IT Support
10 15 (4.76%) Test and Integration Engineer
11 14 (4.44%) Desktop Engineer
12 12 (3.81%) DBA
13 11 (3.49%) Functional Consultant
13 11 (3.49%) SQL DBA
14 10 (3.17%) 2nd Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.90%) JSON
1 6 (1.90%) Web Services
1 6 (1.90%) XML
2 5 (1.59%) .NET
2 5 (1.59%) LDAP
2 5 (1.59%) RESTful
2 5 (1.59%) SOAP
3 4 (1.27%) SPFx
4 3 (0.95%) Middleware
5 2 (0.63%) OAuth
5 2 (0.63%) OAuth2
5 2 (0.63%) PySpark
5 2 (0.63%) Spark Streaming
5 2 (0.63%) YAML
6 1 (0.32%) .NET Core
6 1 (0.32%) ARM Templates
6 1 (0.32%) ASP.NET Web API
6 1 (0.32%) HTML5 Canvas
6 1 (0.32%) React
6 1 (0.32%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 45 (14.29%) PKI
2 16 (5.08%) Management Information System
3 12 (3.81%) Clustering
3 12 (3.81%) Data Centre
4 8 (2.54%) Driving Licence
5 7 (2.22%) Public Cloud
6 6 (1.90%) NHS
6 6 (1.90%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (1.59%) Low-Code
7 5 (1.59%) Security Operations Centre
8 4 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.27%) Video Conferencing
9 3 (0.95%) Distributed Computing
9 3 (0.95%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (0.95%) Grid Computing
9 3 (0.95%) iPhone
9 3 (0.95%) IVR
9 3 (0.95%) Replication
9 3 (0.95%) Security Posture
9 3 (0.95%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 135 (42.86%) Windows
2 73 (23.17%) Windows Server
3 37 (11.75%) Windows 10
4 22 (6.98%) Windows Server 2012
5 17 (5.40%) Linux
6 10 (3.17%) Windows 7
7 7 (2.22%) Unix
8 6 (1.90%) Mac OS
9 4 (1.27%) Windows 8
9 4 (1.27%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.95%) Ubuntu
10 3 (0.95%) VMS
10 3 (0.95%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.63%) CentOS
12 1 (0.32%) Android
12 1 (0.32%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (33.33%) ITIL
2 73 (23.17%) Customer Service
3 68 (21.59%) Problem-Solving
4 47 (14.92%) Incident Management
5 38 (12.06%) Agile
6 30 (9.52%) Service Management
7 29 (9.21%) Service Delivery
8 28 (8.89%) Computer Science
8 28 (8.89%) Migration
9 24 (7.62%) Data Modelling
9 24 (7.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 20 (6.35%) Disaster Recovery
11 19 (6.03%) DevOps
11 19 (6.03%) High Availability
11 19 (6.03%) Project Management
12 17 (5.40%) Change Control
12 17 (5.40%) Critical Thinking
13 16 (5.08%) Change Management
13 16 (5.08%) Regression Testing
13 16 (5.08%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 46 (14.60%) PowerShell
2 44 (13.97%) SQL
3 6 (1.90%) C#
3 6 (1.90%) Python
4 5 (1.59%) Kusto Query Language
5 4 (1.27%) Bash
5 4 (1.27%) JavaScript
6 3 (0.95%) VB.NET
7 2 (0.63%) Bicep
7 2 (0.63%) C++
7 2 (0.63%) Scala
7 2 (0.63%) X++
8 1 (0.32%) Java
8 1 (0.32%) VB
Qualifications
1 82 (26.03%) Security Cleared
2 78 (24.76%) MCSA
3 76 (24.13%) Degree
4 72 (22.86%) MCSE
5 66 (20.95%) A+ Certification
6 64 (20.32%) SC Cleared
7 31 (9.84%) Azure Certification
8 30 (9.52%) Cisco Certification
9 27 (8.57%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 26 (8.25%) CCNA
11 25 (7.94%) MCP
12 18 (5.71%) DV Cleared
13 17 (5.40%) Computer Science Degree
13 17 (5.40%) MCITP
14 13 (4.13%) MCTS
15 12 (3.81%) CCNP
16 8 (2.54%) CISSP
17 7 (2.22%) AWS Certification
17 7 (2.22%) CITP
17 7 (2.22%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (4.76%) JSP 440
1 15 (4.76%) SLA
2 5 (1.59%) GDPR
2 5 (1.59%) NIST
3 4 (1.27%) HIPAA
3 4 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.27%) PCI DSS
3 4 (1.27%) SOC 2
4 3 (0.95%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (0.95%) ISO 9001
4 3 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 3 (0.95%) NCSC
System Software
1 121 (38.41%) Active Directory
2 43 (13.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (5.40%) vSphere
4 10 (3.17%) Hyper-V
5 4 (1.27%) Firmware
5 4 (1.27%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.95%) Virtual Servers
6 3 (0.95%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.63%) BitLocker
7 2 (0.63%) Docker
7 2 (0.63%) XenApp
7 2 (0.63%) XenDesktop
8 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.32%) Terminal Services
8 1 (0.32%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 25 (7.94%) SCCM
2 19 (6.03%) Microsoft Intune
3 16 (5.08%) OPNET
4 8 (2.54%) SCOM
5 7 (2.22%) WSUS
6 4 (1.27%) Kubernetes
6 4 (1.27%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (0.95%) Terraform
8 2 (0.63%) Backup Exec
8 2 (0.63%) CA Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.63%) Jamf Pro
8 2 (0.63%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.32%) Failover Clustering
9 1 (0.32%) Grafana
9 1 (0.32%) Nagios
9 1 (0.32%) Nessus
9 1 (0.32%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.32%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 268 (85.08%) Microsoft
2 62 (19.68%) VMware
3 52 (16.51%) ServiceNow
4 46 (14.60%) Citrix
5 15 (4.76%) Cisco
6 10 (3.17%) Dell
7 9 (2.86%) Google
8 8 (2.54%) Apple
9 7 (2.22%) CA
10 5 (1.59%) Bloomberg
10 5 (1.59%) Databricks
11 4 (1.27%) HP
11 4 (1.27%) SolarWinds
11 4 (1.27%) Veeam
12 3 (0.95%) Avaya
12 3 (0.95%) Genesys
12 3 (0.95%) Red Hat
12 3 (0.95%) Refinitiv
13 2 (0.63%) Nexthink
13 2 (0.63%) Okta